GRG2 v David Lloyd (Tue, Jan 23, '07)

Todd at #5 against his David Lloyd clone Callum Lyle was a long attrition between the two running machines and once Todd sussed that Callum's recent kneee op didn't allow him to retrieve the drop shot, Todd progressed to a 3-1 win.

Court 1 was out of action for 30 mins as Captain Dutton had to wipe away the rubber melted into the floor from someone prior to the team match firing a ball into the heater. The smell of bunring rubber was sickening. Finally Kevin Roberts got to play Elaine Inglis (pron. Ing-ils) - Kevin raced to a 2-0 lead but Elaine played some rolling nicks to win the third at set-2, normal service resumed as Kevin finished out 3-1.

Mark at #3 had a hard match as Julian Fennema picked up everything but Mark succeeded in sucking Julian into his slow paced rallies to win in 4 and bag the bonus points

Gerald was hiding at #2 having played a nine-game ladder match the previous night and Neil Abbey countered the loose boasts to beat our man in 4.

Christy piled on the pace early against their #1, Scotland star Neil Thompson (albeit at over-65 age group ;-) to go 2 up including one bagel (to borrow a phrase from the Australian Open tennis). The third saw Neil get a few game balls before Christy recovered to set-2 and get two match balls himself which duly converted

Overall GRG2 beat DLL2 4-1, 16-6 on points.

Man of the match goes to Mark Dutton for his floor rubber-scrubbing, knee-scrubbing dives and opponent-scrubbing play.

Pizzas were enjoyed in the committee room along with some surreal conversation topics and enjoyable banter- the Long Room was occupied by a Burns Supper.